I dropped my religion major, not because it challenged my faith with hard questions, but because it didn’t ask the right hard questions.
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“when in worship we confess that we are sinners, we are not engaging in self-hatred or self-abuse. Just the opposite, in fact. We are acknowledging to ourselves and to others before God our absolute helplessness to live the lives we want and need to live.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“The fear of judgment, in particular, keeps us from being gracefully present to those most in need.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“God by nature is supremely knowable, and because he is good, he desires to be known by creatures in ways fitted to the reality purposed for us.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“If we desire what is good in ways that are not good, we can rest assured that God will gracefully disappoint us. If what we find delightful in God is in fact an illusion, God has promised to go on revealing his true beauty until we find that beauty truly desirable.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
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